[gmx-users] what is the "nicelevel" ?

[Linus Östberg]

The nicelevel is simply the priority of the process, where 19 is the
lowest priority (ie most other programs will use the cpu before the
gromacs process does) and -20 the highest.

See man nice.

// Linus

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:13 PM, GZ Zhang <zgz215 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, ALL
>      I'm using "genbox" to create a water box. There is a flag called
> "-nice" which is described to be used to set the nicelevel.
> What is nicelevel ? What does the default value "19" mean ? What if I would
> like to increase the decimal places (the default
> is 3) of all numbers. Thanks.
>      Regards,
>      Guozhen
>
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